Loch Ness monster surface
[Image:Wazm3.JPG|thumb|right|An approximation to the Loch Ness monster surface. The monster should really be infinitely long with an infinite number of loops.]
[Image:Loch ness monster surface.svg|thumb|right|A plot of a part of a Loch Ness monster surface.]
In mathematics, the Loch Ness monster is a surface with infinite genus but only one end. It appeared named this way already in a 1981 article by. The surface can be constructed by starting with a plane and adding an infinite number of handles.